Applied Sciences

edited by

, João Vidal Carvalho and António Abreu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6743 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital information systems; generative AI; technological advancements; industry applications; commerce innovation; educational technology; empirical research; systematic literature reviews

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advances in Food Processing Technologies: Enhancing Quality, Safety, and Sustainability

edited by

Pascal Degraeve

and

Mariya Dushkova

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6625 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced food technologies; food processing; food quality; food safety; food sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Noise and Vibration Hazards from Transportation Systems

edited by

Tomasz Figlus

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6525 | Submission Open

Keywords: noise; vibration; transportation systems; transport; environment; human; hazards; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

Innovative Materials and Technologies in Orthodontics

edited by

Nunzio Cirulli

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6102 | Submission Open

Keywords: orthodontics; technology in orthodontics; 3D printing in orthodontics; clear aligners; customized orthodontics; artificial Intelligence in orthodontics; biomechanics; early treatment; miniscrews

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multiagent Systems

edited by

Rakib Abdur

and

Mehmet Aydin

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5869 | Submission Open

Keywords: cooperative and competitive machine learning in multiagent systems; cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning; competitive multiagent reinforcement learning; multiagent machine learning for policy fine-tune and optimization; multiagent communication and coordination; multiagent value function approximation; transfer learning and generalization of experience; decentralized control and decision-making in multiagent systems; exploration and exploitation strategies in multiagent environments; robustness and adaptability of DRL-MAS to dynamic environments; theoretical foundations and analysis of DRL-MAS algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advanced Computer Vision Techniques: AI-Based Object Detection, Tracking, Surveillance and Security Applications

edited by

Deokwoo Lee

and

Yohan Park

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5860 | Submission Open

Keywords: detection; tracking; recognition; information security; computer networks; deep learning; lightweight model

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Data-Enhanced Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment and Design

edited by

Debiao Meng

and

Wei Li

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5758 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced computational methods; uncertainty quantification; physics-informed machine learning; reliability-based design optimization (RBDO); data augmentation; structural integrity modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Information Security: Threats and Attacks

edited by

Yue Zhang

and

Bogdan Ghita

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5637 | Submission Open

Keywords: attack exploiting; threats evaluation; attack and defense; attack and detection; vulnerability and attacks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Deep Learning and Its Applications in Natural Language Processing

edited by Caren Han, Josiah Poon, Siwen Luo and Yihao Ding

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5354 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; natural language processing (NLP); large language models (LLMs); multimodal models; text generation; NLP applications; financial NLP; medical NLP

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Computer-Vision-Based Biomedical Image Processing

edited by

Grigorios E. Kalliatakis

and

Christos Chrysoulas

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5336 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer vision; artificial intelligence; biomedical image processing; medical image analysis; deep learning; representation learning; computer-aided detection; anomaly detection; biomarkers; digital healthcare

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Advancements and Applications in Reinforcement Learning

edited by Chairi Kiourt and

Dimitris Kalles

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5335 | Submission Open

Keywords: reinforcement learning; adaptive control; collaborative learning; robotics and automation; multi-agent systems; simulation; decision making; non-stationary environment.

Geotechnical Structure Analysis and Risk Assessment in Tunnel Engineering, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jianxiu Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5163 | Submission Open

Keywords: case history analysis; multi-scale geotechnical structure analysis; risk assessment of tunneling; geotechnical risk mitigation; new emerging technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Optimization of Advanced Nuclear Technologies and Application in the Energy Industry

edited by Juntao Liu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5161 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced nuclear technology; uranium exploration; nuclear well-logging; comprehensive nuclear energy utilization; intelligent nuclear power plant; radiometric measurement; nuclear fuel cycle; modular reactor; nuclear industry digitalization; energy industry applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Visible Light Communications (VLC) Networks

edited by

Pablo Palacios-Játiva

and

César Augusto Azurdia Meza

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5084 | Submission Open

Keywords: visible light communications; underwater optical wireless communications; visible light channel modeling; industrial visible light communications; visible light communication applications; IA visible light communications; experimental VLC networks; 6G visible light communications; hybrid LiFi and WiFi network; optical wireless communications; advanced signal processing in VLC; transmitter and receiver technologies for VLC

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Recent Advances in Reflectarray and Transmitarray Antennas

edited by

Michele Beccaria

and

Paola Pirinoli

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5002 | Submission Open

Keywords: reflectarray; transmitarray; periodic structures; 5G; 6G; additive manufacturing; metasurfaces; optimization; reconfigurable antennas; lenses

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Artificial Intelligence in Drone and UAV

edited by Romain Neuville

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4821 | Submission Open

Keywords: drones; AI driven; flight

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Soundscapes in Architecture and Urban Planning

edited by

Konstantinos Vogiatzis

and

Nikolas Remy

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4635 | Submission Open

Keywords: soundscape; sound quality; design; city; built environment; natural spaces

(This special issue belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)

Emerging Non-Destructive Testing Technologies: Advances and Applications

edited by

Ester D’Accardi

,

Rosa De Finis

and

Umberto Galietti

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4506 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-destructive testing (NDT); thermographic NDT; additive manufacturing defects; quantitative data analysis; machine learning in NDT; material integrity assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Innovative Approaches and Materials for Water Treatment

edited by

Ioannis Ioannidis

,

Ioannis Pashalidis

,

Dimitrios Giannakoudakis

and

Vasiliki Kinigopoulou

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4501 | Submission Open

Keywords: water treatment; secondary pollutants; microplastics; organic pollutants; heavy metals; adsorption; desorption

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advances in Vehicle Dynamics and Road Safety: Technologies, Simulations and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Edgar Sokolovskij

and

Vidas Žuraulis

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4493 | Submission Open

Keywords: vehicle dynamics; road safety; accidents analysis; accidents reconstruction; active safety; passive safety; traffic flows; traffic organization; dangerous goods; autonomous vehicles; human factor

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)

Recent Advances and Applications of Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing

edited by

Juan Ignacio Ahuir-Torres

,

Tahsin Öpöz

and Martin Sharp

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4452 | Submission Open

Keywords: powder bed fusion; selective laser sintering; selective laser melting; direct energy deposition; spatial light modulator; material jetting; stereolithography; super isotropic alloys; mechanical properties; biomaterial; corrosion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Technological Innovations and Tools in Dental Practice

edited by

Hee-Eun Kim

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4442 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence in dentistry; big data in dentistry; dental imaging; diagnostic tools in dentistry; digital dentistry; nanodentistry; preventive dental techniques; robotics in dental practice; tissue engineering in dentistry; wearable dental devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)

Latest Advances in Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering

edited by

Hadi Nourizadeh

and

Roohollah Shirani Faradonbeh

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4239 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock mechanic; rock engineering; geotechnical engineering; slope stability; underground excavation; ground contreol systems; soil mechanic; advanced computational methodology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Recent Advances in Space Instruments and Sensing Technology

edited by Jurgen Vanhamel and

Jian Guo

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4175 | Submission Open

Keywords: space instrumentation; earth observation; telecommunication from space; remote sensing; space-based sensors; space exploration; space-based imaging; space data collection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)

Applications of Thin Films and Their Physical Properties

edited by

Marilou Cadatal Raduban

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4108 | Submission Open

Keywords: thin film fabrication; thin film characterization; thin film modelling; thin film applications; surfaces and interfaces; nanocomposite thin films; nanoparticles; solar energy conversion; catalysis; magnetics and magneto-optics; electronics; optics; and opto-electronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)

Technology and Organization Applied to Civil Engineering

edited by

Marzena Lendo-Siwicka

,

Roman Trach

and

Grzegorz Wrzesinski

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4077 | Submission Open

Keywords: civil engineering; technology in civil engineering; economics in civil engineering; management in civil engineering; construction works; construction projects; the operation of building facilities; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Digital Design and Manufacturing: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4029 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital design; generative design; digital manufacturing; additive manufacturing; digital life-cycle; generative AI in design; digital design workflows; automated design tools; computational design; generative design; generative AI; digital design and manufacturing practice; design for additive manufacturing; design for digital manufacturing; digitalization of conventional manufacturing; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Additive Manufacturing Technologies)

Research on Properties of Novel Building Materials

edited by

Yue Gu

, Lin Liu and Kai Lyu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4004 | Submission Open

Keywords: construction materials; durability; low carbon; CO2 uptake; energy storage; self-sensing; artificial intelligence; nano-modified

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Engineering Groundwater and Groundwater Engineering—2nd Edition

edited by

Jianxiu Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3967 | Submission Open

Keywords: groundwater; engineering construction; mechanism analysis; control technology; case history

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Trends and Prospects in Software Security

edited by Zhanyong Tang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3967 | Submission Open

Keywords: system and software security; artificial intelligence; information security; privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Rock Mechanics

edited by

Zhongwen Yue

and Hongze Zhao

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3937 | Submission Open

Keywords: rock mechanics; intelligent mining; lithologic identification; artificial intelligence; data-driven models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Technical Advances In and Applications of Low-Cost/Power Sensors

edited by

Hicham Klaina

and

Peio Lopez-Iturri

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3797 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-cost sensors; low-power sensors; wireless technologies; smart cities; 5G; artificial intelligence (AI); virtual reality (VR); augmented reality (AR); Internet of Things (IoT); sensor networks; energy-efficient systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)

Applied Biomechanics for Sport Performance and Injury Rehabilitation

edited by

Francisco García-Muro San José

and Ángel Luis Rodríguez-Fernández

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3626 | Submission Open

Keywords: sport physiotherapy; sport biomechanics; injury; performance; rehabilitation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Remote Sensing Technology in Landslide and Land Subsidence—2nd Edition

edited by

Jiewei Zhan

,

Wu Zhu

and

Qing Wang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3610 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; landslide; land subsidence; hazard detection; risk scenarios

(This special issue belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

IoT and Edge Computing for Smart Infrastructure and Cybersecurity

edited by

Kai Peng

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3539 | Submission Open

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); edge computing; smart infrastructure; cybersecurity; data privacy; intelligent transportation; industrial automation; real-time data processing; AI-driven analytics; blockchain security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

New Perspectives in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics

edited by

Víctor Fernández

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3533 | Submission Open

Keywords: interoperabiity; transformers; pretrained models; multilingual NLP; bias and fairness; explainability; reasoning; generative models; few-shot learning; multimodal learning; smartcity; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Application of Nanomaterials in the Field of Photocatalysis

edited by

Alejandro Pérez-Larios

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3506 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; nanomaterials; semiconductor catalysts; environmental remediation; hydrogen generation; water splitting; CO₂ reduction; visible light photocatalysis; metal oxide nanoparticles; photocatalytic efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Applications of Machine Learning with White-Boxing

edited by Ashok K. Singh

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3328 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; artificial intelligence; white-box models; interpretability; prediction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Applications in Infrared Thermography

edited by

Henrique Fernandes

and

Nicolas P. Avdelidis

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3287 | Submission Open

Keywords: big data; artificial intelligence; infrared thermography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)

Pattern Recognition in Video Processing

edited by

Mingliang Zhou

, Xuekai Wei and

Yi Qin

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3227 | Submission Open

Keywords: video pattern recognition; object detection and tracking; action and activity recognition; facial expression analysis; gesture recognition; video anomaly detection; deep learning for video analysis; real-time video processing; video surveillance applications; autonomous vehicle perception

(This special issue belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

New Insights into Lithium-Ion Batteries: Technologies and Challenges

edited by

Xiao-Guang Yang

and Tao Zhu

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3215 | Submission Open

Keywords: lithium-ion battery; fast charging; smart battery; battery management system; thermal management; electrochemical modeling; battery safety; Li-metal battery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Sustainable Science and Technology)

Pioneering Progress in Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Advancements

edited by

Luca Ulrich

,

Corrado Calì

,

Enrico Vezzetti

and Andrea Luigi Guerra

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3113 | Submission Open

Keywords: Healthcare 4.0; human body tracking; human body visualization; behavioral analysis; digital image processing; augmented reality; virtual reality; artificial intelligence; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

New Developments in Smart Farming Applied in Sustainable Agriculture, 2nd Edition

edited by

Katarzyna Pentoś

,

Tomasz Wojciechowski

and

Gniewko Niedbała

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3078 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart farming; precision agriculture; precision livestock; precision horticulture; digital agriculture; remote sensing; internet of things; data analysis; sustainable agriculture; traceability; supply chain; artificial neural networks; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)

Mechanical Fault Diagnosis and Signal Processing

edited by

Juan Jose Saucedo-Dorantes

and

Miguel Delgado-Prieto

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3067 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent fault detection; high-resolution signal processing; noise elimination and feature extraction; non-linear operating conditions; electromechanical systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)

Environmental Pollution and Wastewater Treatment Strategies

edited by

Robert Kowalik

and Mária Kaňuchová

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3034 | Submission Open

Keywords: advanced wastewater technology; natural wastewater treatment system; biological treatment and physicochemical treatment; wastewater quality; wastewater treatment and health; sewage sludge treatment and disposal; hormones in water and wastewater; water reuse; resource recovery; municipal wastewater; wastewater reuse

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

Advances in Food Processing Technology: Enhancing Quality, Safety, and Sustainability

edited by Ayerim Hernández-Almanza,

Cristóbal Noé Aguilar González

and

Lorenzo M. Pastrana

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2909 | Submission Open

Keywords: food safety; food quality; food processing; energy efficient equipment; waste reduction; ecofriendly packaging materials; monitoring; microbial inactivation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)

Biological Activities of Plant Extracts and Their Applications

edited by

Francisco Cruz-Sosa

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2906 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological activity; bioactive compounds; plant cell cultures; plant extracts; secondary metabolites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)

Development and Application of Intelligent Drilling Technology: 2nd Edition

edited by

Jingbin Li

and Mengmeng Zhou

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2778 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; drilling technology; intelligent well trajectory optimization; intelligent optimization of the drilling rate; intelligent guided drilling; downhole closed-loop control; intelligent monitoring and decision-making; intelligent rig; intelligent drilling pipe; intelligent bit; intelligent controlled pressure drilling; intelligent drilling fluid

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)

Biomedical Optics and Imaging: Latest Advances and Prospects

edited by

Vladislav Toronov

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2733 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamic light scattering imaging; quantum biophotonics; multiphoton and super-resolution microscopy; immunifluorescence; applications of tissue optical clearing; optical coherence tomography and elastography; molecular imaging; brain imaging; photoacoustics; applications of machine learning in spectroscopy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Aerosol Measurement, Properties and Its Impacts

edited by

Tymon Zielinski

and

Luca Ferrero

submission deadline 20 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2690 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol role in climate change; aerosol pathways/sources; aerosol chemical composition; transformation of aerosol optical properties; radiative balance/radiative forcing; remote sensing; impacts of aerosol loadings for sustainability of global changes; field and theoretical studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)

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